“I do it because I love seeing the fan reaction, but also because it’s a good excuse to hang out with these guys,” Branson said. They don’t attend many panels because they’re in such heavy demand for photos, but they enjoy finding nearby events where they can have a beer, meet other cosplayers and catch up. Each year they arrive in San Diego with multiple costumes which they sometimes change twice a day.
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Branson was Iron Man wearing the Infinity gauntlet his buddy Tom Kelly, 36, of Phoenix was a battered and bruised Captain America and his friend since childhood Alex Daniel, 36, of Cincinnati, was the slightly gone-to-seed Thor.Įverywhere the trio walked on Thursday, a horde of fans shooting cellphone photos, amateur videographers and TV crews followed. Another year, they were characters from “Game of Thrones.” On Thursday, they were Marvel Avengers from the “Endgame” movie. One year, they were characters from the “Punisher” comics. But the effort to create these costumes is a hobby that consumes much of his spare time and money, and in recent years, he has roped in two of his best friends into traveling to Comic-Con with him each year.īranson makes all of their costumes and they walk the convention center exhibition hall and lobby as a trio. On the cosplay circuit, Branson, 37, describes himself as “small-time,” since he makes, paints and wires most of his costumes from scratch with simple store-bought materials and has attended fewer than 20 conventions over the years. But this weekend, he will transform into Iron Man, Daredevil, Grandmaster and a handful of other superheroes at San Diego Comic-Con.īranson, whose cosplay name is Capt Cash (he’s on Instagram), is one of the thousands of Comic-Con attendees who spend months and sometimes thousands of dollars designing elaborate costumes and makeup for the annual five-day event at the San Diego Convention Center. By day, Cash Branson is a mild-mannered human resources worker from Pittsburgh.
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